Experieces While Creating A Blog

    We have done 16 posts towards the end of our blog assessment.We had discover minor difficulties while creating a blog because all of us doesn't have the experiences to create a blog.It is interesting to have a blog.We can stress our feelings and give opinion about something,not to forget we can share any information with other colleagues  by linking  our blog to others.There were comments sections in a blog so that the viewers can give some advice or opinion towards the entry.Finally, we thanked to Madam Rosiah for giving the precious  opportunity  to us.

The Most Recent Fatal or Significant Plane Crashes

   The following were the most recent fatal or significant airliner events, listed with the most recent event first, from around the world. The passenger fatalities in the numbered events may be due to accidents, hijackings, sabotage, or military action. numbered events include all of those involving either jet passenger flights and turboprop accidents involving models with more than 10 passengers seats where the aircraft involved were used in airline service in North America and western Europe, and where at least one passenger was killed.


1.25 January 2010; Ethiopian Airlines 737-800; Flight 409; near Beirut, Lebanon
2.25 December 2009; Northwest Airlines A330-300 (N820NW); Flight 253; near Detroit, MI
3.22 December 2009; American Airlines 737-800 (N977AN); Flight 331; Kingston, Jamaica
4.28 November 2009; Avient Aviation MD-11F; Flight 324; Shanghai, China
5.12 November 2009; RwandAir CRJ-100ER; Flight 205; Kigali, Rwanda
6.9 October 2009;CASA-212, near Fonds-Verrettes, Haiti
7.8 August 2009; Eurocopter and Piper Saratoga, Hudson River, near New York City
8.24 July 2009; Aria Air Ilyushin 62M, Flight 1525; Mashhad, Iran
9.15 July 2009; Caspian Airlines Tu154M, Flight 7908; near Jannatabad, Iran
10.30 June 2009; Yemenia Airlines; A310-300; Flight 626; near Moroni, Comoros Islands

Today in History...

This day in history,21 years ago, on March 21,1989 a Transbrasil Boeing 707-349C crashed while attempting to land at Sao Paulo, Brazil. All 3 crew-members aboard, along with 18 people on the ground, were killed.

The main factor this crash happened cause of pilot error, failure to maintain sufficient airspeed on final approach.Based on the accident investigated, this accident happened because the TransBrasil Boeing 707 was making a high speed approach to runway 09R when the left wing struck a building. The aircraft crashed into a residential area (houses),short of the runway after the aircraft stalled and  bursting into flames.

Airplane Accidents Rate

The following table provides statistical information regarding the accident rates from years 1990 to 2005 in around Australia and Asia. A fatal event is defined as 'an event in which one passenger was fatally injured solely due to the operation of an aircraft’.There are many factors that contribute to the safety rating of an airline including: accident history, maintenance and operational procedures, types of training programs among pilots and crew.

In addition there are different ways to analyze past accident data including using number of hours flown, passenger miles completed or number of trips made. The accident rates are based on only three basic parameters. Number of flights, the number of fatal accidents and the fatality rate of those accidents. The methodology is listed below the tables.Aviation accidents are extremely rare, with the probability of a passenger being killed on a single flight at approximately eight million-to-one. If a passenger boarded a flight at random, once a day, everyday, it would statistically be over 21,000 years before he or she would be killed.

UK Aviation Entrepreneur Dies in Malaysia Plane Crash

A British pilot who died when his plane crashed during a test flight in Malaysia (during takeoff from an airstrip in Taiping) on 16th August 2009 had been described as an aviation entrepreneur. The 53-year-old was flying a Jetpod aircraft, developed by his UK-based company, Avcen, when the accident happened. The plane, which was being tried out at the Tekah airstrip, is being developed to take off and land in short distances and cruise at low levels.
It would need only 125 metres (410ft) to take off or land, allowing runways to be constructed close to city centres, and would also be quiet enough not to be noticeable above the noise of city traffic.
Mohd Sobri Abdullah, the senior officer of the Taiping fire and rescue service, told the Malaysian Bernama news agency that fire and rescue personnel had been stationed at the airstrip at Avcen's request before the crash.
He said the plane had reached an altitude of 200 metres when it plunged to the ground and burst into flames. The Department of Civil Aviation was investigating the cause of the accident.

~Civil Aviation~

The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA) sets and monitors civil aviation safety and security standards. It is governed by the Civil Aviation Act 1990 (amended in 1992). The CAA is responsible for almost every aspect of civil aviation safety, including:

•the licensing of pilots, aircraft maintenance personnel and airlines
•designation of space in which aircraft can fly

•regulation of flight and airport operations

•certification of airports and airfields, aircraft manufacturers, aviation organisations and airways services such as weather forecasters.

~First Air Crash Accident~

Nineteenth-century balloonist David Mahoney (alias Captain Charles Lorraine) was the first New Zealander to die in an air accident, drowning after his balloon came down in the sea beyond the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour in 1899. Balloons gave way to aeroplanes before the First World War, and the pioneering phase of aviation stretched into the 1930s. The first aircraft fatality occurred in 1919 when a biplane crashed during an aerobatic display over a race meeting at Christchurch, killing pilot Cecil Hill. Such accidents brought home the hazardous nature of flying.